[8.0.1] Very long source code ...

[marten]

I created a source string building a ByteArray:

^#(12 23 32 45 .....)

and so on. The resulting string is pretty large. I output this string to Transcript, SelectAll, then switch to a method editor and the did "paste". The string seems to be inserted, but it is not viewable. I can save the method and it seems to be there - because executing the method returns the ByteArray ...

[tc]

Hello,

Which OS and version of ST are you using?

--tc

[marten]

Hello,

Which OS and version of ST are you using?

--tc

Windos 7 and 8.0.1 ...

[marten]

Hello,

Which OS and version of ST are you using?

--tc

The reason was simple: if the length of a single line is too long - no source will be shown. Just add a "cr" after each 80 (or whatever works) characters and all the source is shown again - very simple, when the source code is generated automatically.

Marten

[tc]

Hello,

The same problem (method not seen or displayed incorrectly) can be seen by loading Seaside and looking at PTDeploymentLibrary>>#prototypeJs. The method displays correctly if the text is word wrapped. The method is not going to be colored since the syntax tree has a limit.

On Unix, it seems there is a fundamental problem because the method will not display properly with ibmst.icx nor abt.icx.

--tc

[jtuchel]

This is true for all methods containing long Strings, like the jQuery javascript methods or if you import files into WAFileLibrary methods.

Seems like the browsers simply cannot handle loooooong lines of text. The effects range from "animated text" where portions of the line get scrolled to the right to seemingly frozen editor panes or only half-shown lines.

This is not so bad for most cases since you may not want to really read such long lines, but I remember downloading jQuery two times in order to look for some JavaScript code in jQuery, just because the browser can't handle it.

I've seen it on Windows XP and Vista with VAST 8.x (haven't looked into B136 yet).

cu

Joachim